“With extensive government experience and a deep background in science, public health, and agricultural and food law, I help clients navigate complex regulatory frameworks with clarity and confidence.”
Overview
Jamie brings nearly 20 years of scientific, regulatory, and legal expertise, providing clients with an essential understanding of the comprehensive regulatory landscape governing food, agriculture, and other consumer product industries. With first-hand insight, she helps clients interpret complex regulatory requirements and guidance, anticipate and manage enforcement risks, and achieve compliance while advancing business goals. Jamie’s focus is on laws, regulations, and policies affecting the production, distribution, and marketing of foods and other consumer products, with an emphasis on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulated products.
Jamie advises and assists clients on matters involving:
Additionally, Jamie provides general counsel and outside legal counsel services to food and agriculture businesses and associations.
Past Experience
Before joining OFW Law, Jamie served for almost 16 years in regulatory policy and consumer safety roles at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Her experiences include advising on the interpretation and application of statutes, regulations, and policies regarding inspections, recalls, exports, import admissibility, hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) principles, and preventive controls. During her time with USDA FSIS, Jamie was lead on World Trade Organization matters; assessed foreign food safety and inspection systems for equivalence with U.S. law and import admissibility; provided education and outreach to the regulated industry, the public, and other interested parties; and managed national recalls and enforcement actions of meat, poultry, and egg products.
Jamie started her career in the private sector, working in food safety and quality assurance roles for food manufacturers, where she developed and implemented food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance programs.
University of Arkansas School of Law, LL.M., Agricultural and Food Law (2023)
University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., Certificates in Intellectual Property and Energy and Environmental Law (2020)
University of Connecticut, M.P.H. (2015)
University of Connecticut, B.S., Animal Science (2007)
Jamie serves as the Vice Chair for the Animal Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. She previously served as an Animal Law Teaching Fellow at the University of Connecticut School of Law and as a court-appointed advocate for animal cruelty cases in Connecticut.
Your legal team sends an urgent alert – FDA just published a proposed rule that could fundamentally change your labeling requirements, compliance costs, or market
Your FSIS inspector flags a sanitation issue during routine review. FDA issues a warning letter citing preventive controls violations. USDA questions your animal-raising label claims.
Your food products meet every safety standard. Your food date labeling complies with current regulations. Yet consumers are throwing away millions of dollars worth of
